Basket



(No Model.)

L. A. BROWN.

BASKET.

N0. 421 868. Patented Feb. 11,1890.

UNITED STATES ATENT O FICE.

LEYVIS A. BROWN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,368, dated February11, 1890.

Application filed September 27, 1889. Serial No. 325,302. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS A. BROWN, of St. Louis, Missouri,have made anew and useful Improvement in Baskets, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

This improvement is adapted more especially to waste-baskets, and thatform of basket is employed to illustrate it; but I desire notto berestricted thereto, as the improvement can be embodied in other forms ofhas kets.

The improved basket relates to that class which can be transported in aknockdown form; and the improvement consists partly in the means foruniting the basket wall with the basket-bottom and partly in the mode offinishing the basket at the top thereof, substantially as is hereinafterset forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part ofthis specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective showingdetached from each other the rings and hoop used at the top of thebasket; Fig. 2, a View showing a portion of the hoop used at the bottomof the basket; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the improved basket, aportion at the upper end of the basket and also a portion at the lowerend being broken away to exhibit the interior; Fig. 4, a horizontalsection on the line 4 4, Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a detail upon an enlargedscale, and being a vertical section through the basket-top at one sidethereof; and Fig. 6, a View in perspective showing the basket-wall as itis about to be slipped onto the basket-bottom. The slat for completingthe wall is shown at the side of the main part of the wall.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts, and the views arenot all upon the same scale.

A represents the basketavall, consisting of a series of slats a, wiredtogether by means of the ties a, and so that the wall can be opened outfiat or bent into the form shown in Figs. 3 and 6, in which the ends a aof the series are united to form the wall by means of a slat a Fig. 6,inserted in the lapped loops a a of the ties at, substantially as shown.The construction as thus far described is similar to that shown inPatent No. 378,492, granted to me February 28, 1888.

B represents the basket-bottom. Its central portion 1) is raised,forming a ledge Z2, extending around such raised portion. Thebasket-wall is slipped onto the portion 1), and the lower end of thewall rests upon the ledge 19'. The wall is then secured in position bymeans of a corrugated or crimped metallic hoop O, which comes againstthe outer side of the wall, and is by means of the nails 0 fastened tothe bottom portion 1). The corrugations or crimps c of the hoop O servea double purpose. They are shaped to fit, respectively, around the slatsa, as shown, and between the slats, to come against the bottom portionZ), and the nails 0 pass through the hoop into the portion 17, as shown,by which means the hoop is not only strengthened,but the slats are heldtightly against the bottom portion Z) without having to perforate theslats, and a light strong stiff structure is obtained.

The bottom B is preferably or": wood; but I do not wish to be restrictedthereto, as an allmetal bottom may be used. A hoop D encircles the slatsat the upper end of the wall.

E represents a ring extending around the top of the basket within theWall and provided with an outwardly-extended flange e, which comes uponthe upper end of the wall.

F represents another ring, which encircles the hoop D, and having aninwardlyturned flange f, which rests upon the upper edge of the hoop D,and which also is preferably made to lap upon the flange e,substantially as shown. The hoop D is usually of wood. I11 applying itnails are driven through the hoop into the slats a. The inner ring isfastened in place by means of nails driven through the ring and slatsinto the hoop D, and the outer ring is attached by nails driven throughit into the hoop D, as shown in the drawings, Fig. 5.

I desire not to be restricted to a knockdown basket in applying thepresent improvement; butthe improvement is well adapted to knockdownconstructions. The basketwall, basket-bottom, and the various hoops andrings described can be shipped in a detached compact form, to be set upby the receiver in the manner described.

If it is desired to reduce the construction to a knockdown form, thevarious nails are withdrawn, the hoops detached, and the basket-Wallends disunited, whereupon the various parts of the basket becomeseparated from each other.

I claim I 1. The combination, in a knockdown basket, of the bottomhaving the raised central portion, the series of slats, and thecorrugated 1100p, said hoop fitting around said slats and being fastenedto said raised bottom portion,

T0 substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a knockdown basket, of the series of slats withthe hoop D and the inner and the outer flanged rings, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination, in abasket, of the bottom having the raised centralportion, the series of slats, and the corrugated hoop, substantially asdescribed.

Witness my hand this 2-tth day of September, 1889.

LEWIS A; BROWN.

WVitnesses:

C. D. MOODY, F. REX.

